BGInfo

BGInfo is a lightweight utility designed to display the current status along with other important information about your system on the desktop background. The app can spare you the trouble of opening several settings windows, only to learn various aspects about your PC's configuration, such as the IP address, OS version, computer name, so on and so forth.

The application comes with a user-friendly GUI that provides a preview of the rows of information and the design of the text to be displayed. The information can be customized in the sense that you can change the font, size, alignment, position on the desktop and the information that you want to show.

As far as the data displayed is concerned, you have dozens of fields to choose from, including boot time, CPU, DNS server, free space, host name, IE version, IP address, network type, memory, logon domain and server, volumes, OS version, user name and service pack, just to name a few.

You should bear in mind that the app does not change your wallpaper, but rather it ads the text on top of it in the desired location. Consequentially, you need to make sure that the text does not go over other writing or drawing that may make it difficult to read.

It is worth mentioning that if you place the tool in the Startup folder, you can be sure that it displays information that is up to date every time you boot. In case you are using the PC for testing, you can configure the tool to scan the system at regular intervals and refresh the data after each modification you make.

BGInfo is a lightweight tool that displays the critical system information directly on your desktop. Not only does it display solely the type of information you need to know, but it can also save a great deal of time for a network administrator or security expert who wants to troubleshoot or perform a diagnostic for a current issue or update.